Uh, Rowling Why Does Slytherin Still Exist?

the world hasn't split into good people and death eaters we've all got both light and dark inside of us are you sure about that ah the four hogwarts houses a cornerstone of harry potter iconography a lucrative engine that powers a lot of the brand's merchandise these symbols and colors are tattooed onto my cerebral cortex forever

they are a smart simple piece of world building functioning as a question a jumping off point to inspire children to imagine themselves attend in a wizard school doing you know wizard things like not receiving a well-rounded education the hogwarts houses are if memes are to be believed gryffindor smart yellow and last but not least

evil despite my love for harry potter i've always been more interested in the characters and i adore the general setting but i have a lot of issues with the world building that stem from problems in the books some of it's kind of funny and mostly harmless like rowling's really bad at math and it creates a lot of

embarrassing mistakes other times it's infuriating like the house elves that love being slaves until you beat them too much and the biggest subplot involving freeing them is more about how hermione did activism wrong by ignoring the people she was advocating for you know you gotta listen to people when you're advocating for them

so you know just accept that the hogwarts kitchen is filled with sentient creatures that keep insisting they love being slaves that video will be like therapy i get paid for today we're diving into something much more gray elusive slithery we're talking about the handling of slytherin house did rolling botch it is hogwarts or the